Join Nancy Ridge and Gray Chynoweth for a fascinating conversation about Trust as a Platform for Innovation. They discuss infusing culture with trust to build resiliency, creating environments that support risk taking that lead to innovation, and more.

Gray Chynoweth is the CEO of Minim (www.minim.co). Prior to joining Minim in 2019, Gray served in a variety of executive positions, including COO at Dyn, where he joined Jeremy Hithcock, Dyn co-founder and CEO, as the first non-founding executive. At Dyn, Gray drove finance, legal, HR and other operational activities, helping to scale the company from fewer than 20 to nearly 500 employees, set the course to surpass $100,000,000 in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), and established global operations. Dyn was acquired by Oracle in 2017 for more than $650,000,000. Gray has a JD from Duke University School of Law, an MA in Public Policy from Duke University, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with High Distinction. Gray currently resides in Manchester, NH where he has a wife and two sons, aged 10 and 6.

Index:

01:19 – Introduction of Gray Chynoweth, CEO of Minim
03:42 – How trust is core to innovation
08:29 – How the Minim vision relates to trust as a platform for innovation and what that means to the at home worker
14:46 – “going back” to the office, yet not the way it was
17:40 – Elements of change, risk, and failure creating a culture of innovation at Minim
23:38 – Experiences that developed Gray as an innovative leader and using innovation to increase non-profits’ missions
29:09 – Innovation that Gray would like to see gain adoption
31:57 – Closing

Helpful Links:
Minim – https://www.minim.com

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Release Date:
28 January 2021